Written answers
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Department of Transport
Public Transport
10:00 am
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 472: To ask the Minister for Transport if his Department has received a request from Cobh Town Council to provide funding to augment bus services in Cobh; the amount requested; if the funding will be forthcoming; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5219/07]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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In response to a request last year from Cobh Town Council for Exchequer funding towards the cost of a Cobh Area Bus Service, my Department advised the Council that funding for loss making economically and socially necessary public transport services is currently provided to CIÉ, which has a statutory mandate under various Transport Acts, to provide such services and as there is currently no statutory basis for the State to procure such services from private operators, it was not possible to provide the funding sought.
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 473: To ask the Minister for Transport the amount of funding that has been provided in 2007, for the provision of quality bus corridors in the greater Dublin area; the amount that has been provided for the provision of bus priority along Dublin's quays; the timescale for the provision of a full bus corridor along the quays; the projected start and finishing dates for this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5295/07]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Transport has made €40m available in 2007 to the DTO Traffic Management Committee for deployment on traffic management projects. Applying earlier decisions of the DTO Steering Committee, some €34m or 85% of this will be available for bus priority projects, with the balance available for other traffic management projects within the region. At the January meeting of the DTO Traffic Management Grants Committee, some €681,000 was approved to extend existing bus priority measures on the north city quays as follows:- St. John's Road (Military Road to Steeven's Lane), Parkgate Street, Wolfe Tone Quay to Arran Quay (junction with Church Street). I understand that the three schemes described above will be implemented following the completion of work on the water mains at Kilmainham Lane and Bow Lane.
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 474: To ask the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the widespread concern among residents in Glasnevin and Ballymun regarding plans to construct metro north as a surface rail-line through their area; when and the persons by whom the decision was taken not to run this project as a deep-bored tunnel within the Glasnevin/Ballymun areas; if, in view of the public concern he will request the RPA to draw up plans for a deep bored tunnel as far as the M50 crossing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5296/07]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Railway Procurement Agency is currently looking at a number of options and is engaged in consultation with stakeholders on the best design solution for Ballymun. No decision has yet been made by the Board of the RPA on the proposed method of construction
The RPA will in due course submit an application for a Railway Order to An Bord Pleanala and it will then be a matter for An Bord Pleanala to come to make a decision on that application.
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